We Need To Rewild The Internet

Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.

Source: We Need To Rewild The Internet

This is a long thoughtful piece on how humans turn ecosystems into factories to maximise their output and the consequent collapse of those former ecosystems.

Of a piece with Cory Doctorow’s enshittification ideas we’ve covered recently.